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Harrison looked about as patient as he would trying to explain why things were the way they were to a 2nd grade as the man put on his show. Heâd managed to roll his eyes and his head, shift his weight onto a leg and its opposite in the time it took the omega to get his point across.
Finally, he shut his mouth, but opened it a second later to breathe through it.
âLookââ Christ, this guy did look a little like shit. Nothing a few more daysâ rest couldnât cure, though. Not that it mattered. âI meant, canât you feel me?â
Harrison fought the urge to reach out, for his own safety and health.
âIâm anââ he leaned in a little closer, shot a glance to a lone woman a few yards down in the chip isle, half squatted and she weighed her options. âIâm an alpha. And youâre an omega. Youâre a were, like me.â
Oh.
Well, that changed things.
John could feel the red flush spreading over his cheeks like the kiss of the sun, and he cleared his throat, trying in vain to not look like he was totally thrown off his guard.
"Well, that's... oh." He stammered, blinking at the man and shifting the basket on his arm to a more comfortable rest against his hip. Now that he was looking for them, John could easily see all the little nuances that differentiated normal, human men from an alpha. There was the breadth of the strangerâs shoulders, the way his pupils were a little larger, the color of his irises a little more... feral. His hair was glossy, sure, but in the way that healthy fur is glossy, and when John leaned in and gulped in as much of a breath as he could through his clogged sinuses, he caught it. The wild musk and smokiness of alpha.Â
Despite illness and exhaustion, long neglected instincts stirred in his gut, shooting him images of swelling knots, a full, swollen belly, and blue eyed babies.
âSorry, I... I didnât know. Yâknow?â John coughed, rocking from foot to foot. He was embarrassed, yes, but also incredibly aware of exactly what the man was, and how they fit together. John had never been with an alpha, all the wolves he knew were either family, or dating family. Thereâd been one time in Academy where there had been a visiting speaker, some Sargent at one of the toughest precincts in the country, and the man had been a beta. John had run into him at a bar after the talk, and a handful of drinks later they were fucking in the back of the manâs car. But that memory was mostly blurred  by more beers than John should have had, and nearly a decade of years.Â
John glanced around, before leaning in again, attempting to inconspicuously scan the man for any sign of mate.
âAre you... yâknow, the only one here?â He cleared his throat, struggling to keep his voice low without breaking into a croaky rasp. âI just moved, I didnât even realize there might be... some of the family here.âÂ













